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Brian Lacy

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Work Department

Partner Dispute Resolution

Position

Partner

Career

Brian is the Head of BVI Dispute Resolution. He is a “formidable” commercial litigation barrister, with considerable experience of civil fraud, insolvency and trust disputes. He regularly appears in the BVI Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal and is “a very strong advocate”. He is known for “giving sound and realistic advice, while fiercely fighting his client’s corner and finding creative solutions to advance its interests”. His team has been described in the leading directories as being “a slick operation” and “a tight, well-run group of clever, hardworking lawyers”

Brian has particular expertise in asset tracing and preservation, especially in the context of civil fraud disputes and insolvency. His cases often involve interim injunctive relief or the appointment of liquidators or receivers and he is a director of Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (BVI) Limited, the BVI chapter of INSOL.

Brian’s BVI law expertise also extends across the full range of Virgin Islands company and shareholder disputes and he successfully represented Microsoft in the first derivative permission claim to be considered by the ECSC Court of Appeal.

Brian joined Ogier as a Partner in 2015. He was previously a barrister with another leading firm in the BVI and before that he was a member of Littleton Chambers, Inner Temple, London. While at Littleton he was junior counsel for the successful respondents in the seminal 6 day Court of Appeal hearing of Dadourian Group International Inc v Simms & Others [2009] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 601, concerning worldwide freezing orders; the strike out an appeal for abuse of process/fraud on the Court; causation in the case of deceit; and the status of previous arbitration findings.

Admitted in:
2012 – British Virgin Islands
2006 – England & Wales (non-practising)

Memberships

RISA (BVI INSOL Chapter)
British Virgin Islands Bar Association
British Russian Law Association
British Ukrainian Law Association
British Kazakh Law Association
Hon. Society of Lincoln’s Inn (Scholarships: Lord Brougham; Harwicke; and Kennedy)
Chancery Bar Association

Education

Brian studied at University of Edinburgh and BPP Law School. Following his education, Brian was admitted as a barrister in BVI (2012) and England and Wales (2006).